kaal:position:2026-07-31-5757

Governance by Design: A Parsonian Institutional Architecture for Internet-Wide Agent Societies presents the following source proposition: We argue that governing such societies requires institutional design, not merely risk enumeration or process compliance. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Social networks grow exponentially more powerful through the network effect, but they are stifled by the centralized ownership and governance of the Web 2.0 companies that run them; governing decentralized information flow requires decentralized incentive designs. The proposed response is a qualification: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.3675.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Governance by Design: A Parsonian Institutional Architecture for Internet-Wide Agent Societies

kaal:claim:3782198-005
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198
Source PDF sha256: e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3675
Mapping ambiguous: true

institutional-designdecentralizationrisk-and-incentivesgovernance-designhistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0002 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

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